We study the problem of allocating multiple resources to agents with heterogeneous
demands. Technological advances such as cloud computing and data centers provide a …

The standard approach of mechanism design theory insists on equilibrium behaviour by
participants. This assumption is captured by imposing incentive constraints on the design …

A blockchain, such as Bitcoin, is an append-only, secure, transparent, distributed ledger. A
fair blockchain is expected to have healthy metrics; high honest mining power, low …

Civic Crowdfunding (CC) uses the``power of the crowd" to garner contributions towards
public projects. As these projects are non-excludable, agents may prefer to``free-ride," …

Much of AI is concerned with the design of intelligent agents. A complementary challenge is
to understand how to design “rules of encounter” by which to promote simple, robust and …

In many assignment problems items arrive stochastically over time. When items are scarce,
agents form an overloaded waiting list and items are dynamically allocated as they arrive; …

Crowdsourcing marketplaces link large populations of workers to an even larger number of
tasks. Thus, it is necessary to have mechanisms for matching workers with interesting and …

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are distributed systems composed of multiple autonomous
agents interacting to achieve a common or conflicting goal. MAS tackles complex and …

How can computers help ordinary people make collective decisions about real-life
dilemmas, like which restaurant to go to with friends, or even how to divide an inheritance …

In this paper, we generalize Green and Laffont's (1979) impossibility theorem to the
following form: in quasi-linear environments, when the set of each agent's types is …